Who We Are

Julia combines a strategic, analytical and business-driven approach with creativity, knowledge and admiration for artistic practices and cultures. She loves setting up new projects and seeing them through from conceptualisation to execution – be it a capital campaign or a large-scale exhibition. 

Her Master’s degree at New York University in the Visual Arts Admin programme concluded with a thesis on international collaborations between museums, which was presented at the American Museum Alliance Innovators Forum. After stints at Performa, LaPlaca Cohen and Departure, Julia worked for Klaus Biesenbach, then Chief Curator at Large at MoMA and Director at MoMA PS1 on curatorial projects and in Development team where she coordinated annual gala at MoMA, set up a corporate membership programme and ran museum-wide events. Julia later supported Hans Ulrich Obrist and Biesenbach as Curators’ Consultant for the live art exhibition 15 Rooms in the Long Museum in Shanghai. For several years, Julia continued to write and research for Obrist on a freelance basis. 

For the next five years, Julia founded, built and ran the young patrons programme at the Victoria and Albert Museum. The V&A Young Patrons’ Circle became the largest such group in the UK over a span of two years and outperformed targets year-on-year. Julia managed relationships and renewals, programmed and hosted well over 200 events, started a YPC Future Fund and instigated an annual party and travel programme. 

Julia’s network of artists, designers, creatives as well as cultural professionals and philanthropists expanded significantly during that time. In early 2021, she moved towards supporting ecological protection and joined US-headquartered Parley for the Oceans to set up a philanthropy arm for their global collaboration network. More recently, Julia has consulted artists and initiatives at the intersection of these converging fields, such as CultureCOP, and Music Declares Emergency and is currently working on several forthcoming exhibitions and projects

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Currently, Julia is working with the Camden Art Centre, Gaia Art Foundation, Black Cultural Archives and Friends of the Austrian Pavilion in Venice. 

Nico is a curator, art historian and art advisor. Having worked in the industry for his entire professional career, he divides his time between working as a consultant for collectors and operating as a curatorial producer who helps traditional artists realise their ambitions. He received his MA in the History of Art with distinction from University College London with a thesis on the Argentinian artist Tomás Saraceno was supervised by T.J. Demos. 

Nico has helped to build two art tech businesses (Artvisor and Artuner) from their early beginnings to revenue-generating, recognisable brands within the contemporary art industry. During his tenure at these businesses, he arranged numerous exhibitions throughout Europe, New York and Hong Kong, focusing mostly on artists of his generation. As a director of the companies, he helped to train numerous employees, who went on to become gallery owners, publishers, and auction house specialists. 

Education is at the core of Nico’s practice. He is a frequent lecturer on contemporary art at Christie’s Education in London where he designed the course The Art Market Online: An Essential Guide which has run for the past five years. He has taught classes on contemporary art and its markets for Bocconi, The Courtauld, and University College London among other leading universities. Nico also acts as a consultant for Frieze Art Fair, organising bespoke tours for their VIP clients at the fair’s LA, London and New York editions. 

He has written on contemporary art for a variety of online publications including SuperRare, AQNB, Photomonitor and the journal components of his past two previous businesses. His book, an analysis of Susan Sontag’s On Photography, was published on Routledge in 2018.